Maurice
Lee Jr. has been turning out important, and often controversial, work on the history of early-modern
Scotland since the appearance of his first book in 1953. This collection contains eleven of his most
important journal articles and book chapters; there are also five new pieces, including the title
article on the Union, a reassessment of Mary Queen of Scots, and a new interpretation of the mysterious
Gowrie Conspiracy. This volume will be of great interest to all readers with a professional, or
amateur, interest in the history of Scotland from the Reformation to the Union.

Contents:
The ‘Inevitable’ Union: Absentee Government in Scotland, 1603-1707; Sir Richard Maitland of Lethington:
A Christian Laird in the Age of Reformation; Mary Queen of Scots: The Next Assignment; John Knox and his
History; The Fall of the Regent Morton: A Problem in Satellite Diplomacy; James VI and the Revival of
Episcopacy in Scotland, 1596-1600; The Gowrie Conspiracy revisited; Scotland and the ‘General Crisis’
of the Seventeenth Century; James VI’s Government of Scotland after 1603; King James’s Popish Chancellor;
Archbishop Spottiswoode as Historian; Charles I and the End of Conciliar Government in Scotland; Scotland,
the Union, and the Idea of a ‘General Crisis’; Annus Horribilis: Charles II in Scotland. 1650-51; The
Buccleuch Marriage Contract: An Unknown Episode in Scottish Politics; The Troubles of a Family Man: the
Earl of Tweeddale and his Kin; Index.